This sounds great and I'm really glad to see Pandoc is already in this discussion. I'm working in educational technology and also with researchers in academia and the Pandoc is really something I've been recommend to all researchers frustrated with Word and other WYSIWYG word processors. Having tables and footnotes makes it ideal markup for researchers.

Markdown is a simple little humane markup language based on time-tested plain text conventions from the last 40 years of computing. Meaning, if you enter this… …you get this! Lightweight Markup Languages ============================ According to **Wikipedia**: > A [lightweight markup lan...